Steph

I checked out some Crazy Eddie commercials too.

As I've said elsewhere, Sarah's Sunshine and Bobby's Bricks are my favorites.

I like the story behind the ruby glass ones though.

I don't know Crazy Eddie, but I'm guessing he was like Linda Soundtrak who was an Oklahoma icon in the 80's and was touted as a pioneer in advertising for her annoying ads.

I had a Manwich this year.

Apparently vertebrae and other bones were sometimes called "knucklebones" and they may have been a precursor to our jacks.

... and in Mongolia, anklebones could be flicked like marbles for game play.

Maybe "marbles" was used by whoever labeled the photo because he couldn't think of a better term.

February 1942

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Millions of carefully inspected glass marbles, ready for remelting and forming into glass filaments. A single marble can be drawn into a continuous filament so fine that it would reach from New York to Philadelphia. More than one hundred filaments must be drawn together to make the finest workable strand

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More Owens-Corning pictures: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=marbles%20owens%20corning

Turkish children playing marbles in Angora with vertebrae of sheep

Are you able to see the picture there? Won't open for me. Might not be available online.

I googled sheep vertebrae to see if I could visualize how they could be used as marbles.

But it's a head scratcher.

1908

A quiet game of marbles. All the boys work in the Salisbury (N.C.) cotton mill. The boy shooting is Henry Dedman, a warper. Been in mill 5 years. His grandmother said "I don't like to have ' em play marbles on Sunday, but when can they play?" "Yes he stands the mill work pretty well. Early getting' up is the makin' of 'em." Location: Salisbury, North Carolina.

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Hi Bob. Do you happen to know her name?

Ric, remember the Big Value boxes with Alleys?

http://marbleconnection.com/topic/19033-1953/

Cute.

I figured they were Pelts in the Champion and Big Boy bags, but now that you noticed the Sure Shot, I'm remembering the Alley Big Boys.

So maybe some combo of the marbles Berry Pink might have jobbered.

From Recreation, Volume 22, pp 315, 316, April 1905

Includes references to names from the 1840's.

Also tells a game to play with large marbles

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potashes, commons, nickers, white alley, man, men, shooters, chinee, agate, cornelian, glass agate, Tom, Tom troller, bamboozler, commies, combos, alley, blue alley, blood alley, taw, ducks, plasters, chinas, crystals, potteries, alleys, megs

Current combined list:

agate, aggie, aggies, allies, alley, alleys, bamboozler, blackies, blockbuster octopus, blockbusters, blood alley, bloodies, blue alley, blue candy stripes?, bolders, bullseyes, chaney alleys, chinas, Chinas, chinee, Chinees, clayies, clearies, cloudies, combos, commies, commons, cornelian, crockie, crockies, crokers, crystals, doughie, doughies, ducks, Englishies, flinties, glass agate, glass agates, glassies, halfies, houses, kimmies, klogknocker (sp? clogknocker?), immies, man, megs, men, mibbs, mibs, middles, miggle, miggs, migs, milkies, nickers, peedabs, peewee's, peewees, pimples, plasters, pot-eyes, potashes, potteries, pures, reallies, red eyes, red moonstone?, ringers, robin's eggs, root beer cleary, shooters, steelies, stony alleys, taw, 3 line cleary, tolley, Tom, Tom troller, white alley,

-- including all the spelling variants and singulars and plurals even if that may seem silly -- just in case
-- the two question marks so far are because I wasn't sure whether the color was part of the name or just a description
-- some names may not represent what we use the words for now -- for example "blackies" may be different from Vitro's version



Current foreign terminology: gudes (Brazil), Torrah (Africa), bowls (England), bolitas (South America), "kicking the marbles" (China)

I didn't notice that one!

You guessing Alleys there?

Well, you surely know my theory about oxblood being associated with blue glass. I've spouted off about it enough.

Inside an O' Boy gift box

What seems odd about it?

A little stray brown?

LOVE the underwater shots.

Interesting

(Catfish photo)

Is that oxblood?

Looks like some Pelts, possibly distributed by Berry Pink

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